The excavators are being used for the final phase of the project, connecting Mecca to Medina. The new rail network covers 444 kilometers and will be connected by seven stations along the route.

The railway is expected to carry 3 million passengers a year, including many Hajj and Umrah pilgrims, thus eliminating thousands of buses from the roads. The $13 billion project started in 2009 and will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2014.

A contractor is Saudi Arabia is using over 300 pieces of Cat® equipment on a high-speed rail project. Two-hundred of those are new Cat 320D L Hydraulic Excavators.

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